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9/20/2016

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      How does someone grow up to be like Donald Trump Jr.?
 

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     This I asked myself yesterday when I heard his mean quip comparing the Syrian war refugees, 
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....to a bowl of Skittles.
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     When I and a good many other Americans think of Syrian refugees we see the heart-breaking image of a 5-year-old covered in dirt and blood solemnly sitting in a chair like a little man.  I can't post that picture because I can't even stand to look at it.  It makes me sick.
    Donald Trump Jr.'s Skittles  joke makes me sick, too. 
    Nor is it an extenuating circumstance that he didn't think up the Skittles analogy himself but merely filched the idea, without proper citation, of course,  from a fellow nematode,

...alt-right radio talk host Joe Walsh who posted the original refugees-as-Skittles tweet a month ago.
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     But then mayhaps among the Trump clan plagerism is simply considered a droit du Trump.
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      Still,  consider Donald Jr.:  Born into the lap of luxury,
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...like his father before him,
...educated at the best schools money can buy, from which he graduated debt-free, of course, then  put on his father's  payroll,  handed a spot on his father's TV show, promoted to Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization, whatever that means.
     Model wife, five children, never a day, never of minute of material insecurity his whole life, never a fear that his children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren need do without a thing their whole lives.
      All these good gifts that Donald Trump Jr. has been given and what does he grow up to be?
      Callous,  cynical,

...cruel,
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...so shallow that he cavalierly compared receiving  bad press to the fate of  Holocaust victims,
"The media has been (Hillary Clinton's) number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up. They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing. If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now."
...tout court,  the incarnation of a  grown-up Draco Malfoy.
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       But in the end, it's really no great mystery as to why Donald Jr. turned out to be the kind of person he is.
     " A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit." 
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"Therefore by their fruits you will know them."  (Matthew 7: 18, 20)

References:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/politics/donald-trump-jr-twitter-refugees/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/19/donald-trump-jr-inadvertantly-encourages-america-to-scoop-up-refugees-by-the-handful/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-skittles.html?_r=0

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/what-is-donald-trump-jr-talking-about/500198/

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A15-20&version=NKJV
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